So, what is coaching? With everything going on with artificial intelligence and its impact on coaching, training, instructional design, learning and development, and LMS platforms, everybody is going through extremely fast-paced, rapid change. Yet I go back to one fundamental: we still have to talk to each other.
Coaches and leaders have an ability to expand the mindset and thought process of the people we're coaching, whether clients or employees. Coaches have a unique ability to get people to think and look at things differently.
I just saw a great video by a gentleman by the name of Travis who was talking about the "AI apocalypse" claiming that we're going to have a shortage of talent. But are those two going to intersect? Are they going to bump into each other? Obviously, they will.
I just led a session with one of our clients, and when I think about leadership, we tend to compartmentalize things. Like feedback, mentorship, coaching: so often we put them in there and
About 3-4 weeks ago, I got a phone call from an ex-client who I developed a pretty good friendship with and he said, "I just want to thank you. Are you aware of what happened to my old employer?" I said no, what's going on? He said, "They filed for bankruptcy."
One of the best things that we can do as leaders is to facilitate conversations with our people, not just the leader directly, but facilitate conversations between teammates.
Positive affirmations is a long-standing concept. I just saw a social media post and Kyrie Irving and someone from Shark Tank were talking about the power of positive affirmations. Specifically, "I am..."
When organizations need to improve their workplace cultures, we often talk about our employee cultures or our workplace cultures from a distance. We talk about engagement in these nebulous, ambiguous terms.
What if employees were reminded daily how to be great teammates, how to show up with a positive attitude, how to listen (truly, actively listen), how to give leaders latitude, and how to seek and accept feedback on a regular basis. How do we do that?
The workplace is certainly evolving. Now we've started a publication here called the Workplace Coaching Times. We have multiple contributors, experts, and subject matter experts all contributing content. The workplace is changing. The pandemic and following events prompted us to change. It got us to think differently.